Today at Metal Music Clan we have the honor of presenting what for us is undoubtedly one of the best Pagan Black Metal works of the year 2020, "From Ruins of the Ancient Dark Ages" by CROWN OF FALLEN HEROES, from Mairipora (Brazil ). Heathen Mist, the founder and main member of the band, answers this interview telling us about his project, active since 2004 and about this album with an excellent musical production, atmosphere and epic sound. Without further ado we leave you with the words of Heathen Mist ..
1. Metal Music Clan welcomes Heathen Mist and Crown of Fallen Heroes. Tell us a bit about your history: where, how and why was Crown of Fallen Heroes born?
Heathen Mist: Hey man, thanks for supporting us from Spain!
Well, my history into extreme metal starts between 1994 and 1995 when I was about sixteen years old and witnessed a most fertile wave of black metal releases ever, I was impressed with that hateful majestic atmospheres. Three years later, I started playing bass guitar and joined in a local black metal band for amazing two years. Then, I started to forge Crown of fallen heroes from 2004 as “one man band”, it was the way to express my visions and all my respect to all those who came before us.
2. Who are responsible for this musical project?
Heathen Mist: I’m the founding member and recorded everything in the first album. Later, in the year of 2017, the experienced musician, great friend and drummer “Domminus” joined to record drums and keyboards. He gave an awesome contribution to the new album and now he is a part of Crown of fallen heroes.
3. Eight years after the debut album "Forging a New Hope”, you are back with an excellent work like "From Ruins of the Ancient Dark Ages". Tell us a little about what we can find in this album. Are you satisfied with the final result?
Heathen Mist: “From ruins of the ancient dark ages” is a very well structured album and offers variants of the Crown of fallen heroes sound with an interesting mysterious and epic atmosphere. It’s basically an epic pagan blackened metal album but full of different elements, occasional clean vocals, choruses and acoustic guitars.
Yeah, we’re totally pleased with the album result, especially because we worked very hard during about three years of recordings and adjustments before being released.
4. What are your inspirations for composing lyrics and music?
Heathen Mist: There are different sources of inspiration: I usually listen to the classic extreme metal albums from 90’s and also epic soundtracks, classical and folk music, etc…
A handful of inspirations into the lyrical concept comes from ancient history and mythic textbooks, philosophy and epic movies… However, the fortuitous influence that feeds my spirit is into nature and its elements, observing primitive wonderful landscapes, beholding the coming of a storm, the sound of the ocean waves breaking against the rocks, etc…
The Crown of fallen heroes music is deeply ingrained, think I already found a way to follow on.
5. Crown of Fallen Heroes has played festivals like Sao Paulo's mighty Thorhammerfest - tell us a bit about your live experiences.
Heathen Mist: We had the first and only live experience on stage in 2011. Thorhammer fest is the most important event into pagan/ folk metal scene here in Brazil and it was fucking great night. However, Crown of fallen heroes was born as “one man band” and live experiences sounds a bit stressful, I get quite anxious before the festivals and I don’t particularly enjoy it. Anyway, we decided to play a few live shows this year to see how it goes. A lot of people want to see Crown of fallen heroes and we’re carefully preparing the best we can.
6. Can you give us an explanation about the following songs from "From Ruins of the Ancient Dark Ages"?
Heathen Mist: There is a conceptual nucleus for the album and all the lyrics based on my respectful devotion to ancestry and nature, a parallel between past and present.
* The Golden Mists of Dawn:
Heathen Mist: The album stars out with an intro including distant “clean callings” and acoustic guitars that readies the listener to a very interesting atmosphere and transport in the midst of a battle.
* From Ruins of the Ancient Dark Ages:
Heathen Mist: This song starts with a fast and violent rhythm and shows epic clean vocals into chaos.
Is about the legacy of courage, wisdom and wrath. The feelings and values brought to our time by a spiritual presence, “haunting the present like ghosts in the fog.”
* Wrath from Ancestral Lands:
Heathen Mist: It starts in a powerful balance of rhythmic variations…
This is about the deeds of our ancestors; it starts with a narrative about conquest through a violent battle and ends with the virtues that remains into our hearts.
* Abreast with Honor and Triumph:
Heathen Mist: This song contains more slow rhythms and a brilliant chorus and acoustic guitar piece/ solo in the middle.
The lyrics is simply about the proud way we live with our own values as a resistance into this unworthy present days.
* Wandering Through Foggy Landscapes:
Heathen Mist: An acoustic interlude composed on a cold winter rainy day. It brings some calm moment into the album with a background sound or rain.
* Forest of Pagan Memories:
Heathen Mist: My favorite song: It starts in a mystic and cold narration about a walking to the forest to find out my history. Another highlight is the piano passages and it was the divine inspiration for me. An ode to my visions in a very well detailed hypnotic scene, full of symbolisms and the purest connection with nature. A long Journey to our ancestry.
* Where Crimson Sky Meets the Darkness:
Heathen Mist: This is the atmospheric epilogue of the album.
I composed this song a long time ago to atmospheric ambient darkwave music, but I thought it was a necessary song to end the album.
7. We believe that Brazil has a strong scene at the level of Pagan/Epic/Folk Metal bands and events, etc ... How do you see the scene in your country?
Heathen Mist: Well, I think is the same everywhere. There are few serious people, labels and bands involved 100% into a real purpose, but so many people just having some fun or playing this wave for opportunism.
Here in Brazil our musical roots are more ingrained into the underground extreme metal scene and it always has been strongest resistance since 90’s or even early 80’s, when the mighty Sarcofago created an unique musical style and influenced so many bands around the world. Since then, we have many great bands away from the mainstream media or something.
8. Give us a personal opinion on the following:
-Paganism:
Heathen Mist: Paganism is simply the essence and connection with our ancestry through our relation with the primitive nature; is our empirical knowledge and the way of keeping alive our virtues and values.
-Nature:
Heathen Mist: The primitive temple from where all knowledge came throughout our existence. The sacred mother of all things. I think nature was the divine inspiration for creating “gods or goddesses” with its powerful manifestations and elements still unveiled.
-Modern civilization:
Heathen Mist: Sadly, we can see our values smashed by the degeneration of new policies, creating weak men and forcing us to accept all the worse from different cultures in our lives.
This is the fast and dangerous progress to our extinction, not as humans but as proud and noble men.
9. Name:
-A book:
Heathen Mist: Very hard to mention only one book: maybe “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” by Nietzschie.
-A movie:
Heathen Mist: Braveheart (“Coração Valente” in Portuguese) is the most inspiring and perfect movie ever!
-A classic Metal music record:
Heathen Mist: The first came to my mind: Blood and Iron by Bathory.
10. Do you have an online site for information, merchandising, etc.? Where can we get the material of the band?
Heathen Mist: No official website…
Information: www.facebook.com/CrownofFallenHeroesOfficial
Hammer of Damnation: www.blackmetalstore.com … here you find our new album.
https://crownoffallenheroes.bandcamp.com/album/from-ruins-of-the-ancient-dark-ages
11. Future plans?
R: This year I’m focusing on the live shows and I’ll probably composing new songs for a new album… but first and most of all… hoping to heal our wounds and attempt gradually to rebuild our normal life. WE NEED BACK OUR FREEDOM!!!
12. Anything to add for Metal Music Clan readers or editors?
R: I am very honoured for this opportunity and thankful to all the wonderful people who have been with me on this journey so far!
Strength and honour!
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